It is sad, but through the events of the last few years (Reddit, Twitter, politics) companies have realized they can do whatever they want. While they will lose a significant portion of users, the mass majority will stay. The ones that leave are the ones they can't abuse and they don't want them anyway. Profit is better taking advantage of the complacent and losing the activists than the other way around.
Anywho, I will move to Firefox just like I moved to lemmy. Although I'm not sure moving to Firefox actually fixes anything other than giving Google less money. Now I just need to figure out how to have a phone without apple or Google getting a peice.
What really has me paranoid is all the ones suddenly deciding to power trip and give out bans over nothing. We need to create a safe place on the web where the corporations can't get to us.
TikTok already did this in Indonesia.
They remove any videos that being critical towards TikTok. Especially, they're trying to flood Indonesian market with cheap Chinese goods via TikTok Shop.
Fairphone 4 from certain vendors comes preloaded with e/OS which is like a deGoogled Android. Might work for people looking to move away from Google. I'm considering it myself for my next phone.
Get an android phone that you can root with an OS.
I'm running a bacon right now!
I'll soon upgrade to an oxygen(mi max 2) when mi unlock allows me to :(
I never liked Chrome. The way it made sponsored search results a really difficult to see shade of yellow made me realise where their priorities were long ago.
As such I have always used Firefox.
Yes, I am feeling pretty smug right about now given how correct I am/was about Google pulling some even more dickish move with Chrome.
2023 is the year of self-implosions. Time to switch to opera
Opera is chromium based. Try Firefox
Opera is chromium based with ties to the damned CCP.
"Chrome is a problem, better switch to chromium"
Well, actually ... Ungoogled Chromium
Edit: formatting
If it had to be a chromium browser, I guess I'd try Vivaldi. I'm happy with Librewolf and Firefox though.
Don't use Opera. The current company behind it is evil.
@nudnyekscentryk @TiredNerdDad, the biggest problem of big commercial companies is the complete absence of scruples and ethics regarding the user.
They've abandoned Presto a long long time ago.
That would be either Firefox or LibreWolf then since all the others including Opera are Chromium based under the hood. Let's support true Open Source.
Who knew the Titan was just the beginning?
I tried to switch to Firefox, but I fill out a lot of forms, and it doesn't have autofill for them. It makes it very slow and frustrating. I've searched for solutions to activate it, add ons for it, etc to no avail. It seems that function may only be available in the US? It's strange to have such a basic feature missing.
I basically switch to firefox until something I need doesn't work, then I go back to chrome until they do something scummy. I'm back on firefox now and the experience is better than previously. I will probably stay and keep Chrome for "just in case" stuff or when I want a browser with no privacy/adblock extensions.
a bunch of password managers (i.e. 1password) do this for you
I'll look into it. Thanks!
Firefox absolutely can auto fill!
Well, it would appear the Android version can't, at least not in Australia.
